The great debate over whether a hotdog is a sandwich reached new levels this week when a Louisville newspaper issued a correction for "incorrectly" referring to hot dogs as sandwiches ten times over a period of decades.

On Wednesday, which happened to be National Hotdog Day, the Courier-Journal, noted that the paper referred to hot dogs as sandwiches 10 times, beginning in 1887 and ending in 1966.

"Among those errors were references to a frankfurter sausage sandwich, frankfurter sandwich, coney island sandwich, frankfurter sandwich with mustard, and, the most egregious, a frankfurter sandwich with catchup (ketchup, anyone?)," the Courier-Journal wrote. "We deeply regret the errors, especially that last one."

The Executive Editor at the Courier-Journal, which is part of the USA TODAY Network, tweeted that the paper was prompted to issue the corrections because it is "deadly serious about accuracy."

Gerth noted that his boss "went against years of convention and bought into the powerful weiner-industry lobby's hype and decided that a hot dog is not, in fact, a sandwich."

"A sandwich is nothing more than bread and some sort of filling — sometimes peanut butter, or egg salad, or even watercress — and any accompanying condiments or vegetables," he wrote. "...Unless you’re one of those food snobs who argues that hot dogs aren’t really meat, it’s impossible to say it’s anything but a sandwich."

"We know: the idea that a hot dog is a sandwich is heresy to some of you. But given that the definition of a sandwich is 'two or more slices of bread or a split roll having a filling in between,' there is no sensible way around it.'" the dictionary said in a statement.